Sales: Call 800.374.8146 (N America)Maintaining URL Compatibility
I run more than a dozen stores on the osCommerce engine. Most of them are in the same database using the multi-stores contribution. One of my concerns in switching is that I’d like my old URLs to still work. I would think that through a SQL import you would be able to maintain the same product and category IDs through the transition and then just add support into your .htaccess file to translate those URLs to the proper magento calls.
Is anyone else planning on importing your products and categories in a way that the category and product IDs will be maintained? Do you even think this is important? I’m sure the other features of Magento would make up for whatever transitional pains we have to go through to get switched over, but it sure would be great to move forward and not spend a month or two dealing with loose ends.
1i960 posted Sun, January 6, 2008
I thought about doing that, but I’m not sure it’s worth the effort, especially since my site isn’t ranked very well in Google anyway. The vast majority of our hits come from Adwords, and I will definitely be changing those to reflect Magento’s URL’s. I may just do some basic .htaccess rules so the old URL’s go to the home page or a landing page.
I made a lot of mistakes when I first started using osCommerce, so I don’t want to carry those over into Magento. Call me crazy, but I won’t be using Magento’s osCommerce import feature at all. I don’t like how my products and categories are structured, so I’m just going to start fresh. I have all the raw data for my products in an excel file anyway, so I’ll be using that in some fashion to get the products into Magento.